Religious Groups Using Technology To Speed Up The Rapture

[matcom]

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For thousands of years, prophets have predicted the end of the world. Today, various religious groups, using the latest technology, are trying to hasten it.

Their endgame is to speed the promised arrival of a messiah.

For some Christians this means laying the groundwork for Armageddon.

With that goal in mind, mega-church pastors recently met in Inglewood to polish strategies for using global communications and aircraft to transport missionaries to fulfill the Great Commission: to make every person on Earth aware of Jesus' message. Doing so, they believe, will bring about the end, perhaps within two decades.

In Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a far different vision. As mayor of Tehran in 2004, he spent millions on improvements to make the city more welcoming for the return of a Muslim messiah known as the Mahdi, according to a recent report by the American Foreign Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank.

To the majority of Shiites, the Mahdi was the last of the prophet Muhammad's true heirs, his 12 righteous descendants chosen by God to lead the faithful.

Ahmadinejad hopes to welcome the Mahdi to Tehran within two years.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-endtimes22jun22,1,7639393,full.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage&ctrack=1&cset=true

[wildhorses]

1. you have to be a member to read the link *sigh*

for some reason I find this thread hilarious...

[denverbill]

2. Damned Iranians have us beat by 18 years.

We must not allow a rapture-gap.

[jus_the_facts]

3. J..J..J..Jesus and the Jets......